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A lot of great speeches last night. Seeing Questlove so overwhelmed was very touching. And Troy's speech was excellent. You could hear the translator choking up. Ariana, Jessica, and Jane also.
Slap aside, it seems overall like a rebound from the previous year. Lots of cringe moments, but that's every celebrity-fueled live awards show.
The weakest point honestly was probably the lack of any surprise wins.
A lot of great speeches last night. Seeing Questlove so overwhelmed was very touching. And Troy's speech was excellent. You could hear the translator choking up. Ariana, Jessica, and Jane also.
Slap aside, it seems overall like a rebound from the previous year. Lots of cringe moments, but that's every celebrity-fueled live awards show.
The weakest point honestly was probably the lack of any surprise wins.
Power of the Dog being nearly completely shut out was pretty surprising.
The weakest point honestly was probably the lack of any surprise wins.
CODA for best pic was the surprise win for me.
After it won the SAG it gained a ton of momentum and buzz. Then winning the PGA it more or less became the frontrunner. Its sudden rise to frontrunner status was surprising, but it went in last evening expected to win.
Again, you know this is the kind of language abusive people typically use to defend their actions, right?
What conclusion did I jump to? All I've said is that things like "Love makes you do crazy things" and "I got carried away in the moment" are the kinds of shit abusive people say to defend or excuse themselves. And they are. Draw your own conclusions about what it means to hear it used in this case. I am not saying Will Smith is domestically abusive. I don't know the guy. But I do know he's a 53 year-old man, not a child or some high school kid raging with hormones. There are 15 different ways he could have handled it that didn't involve him sucker-punching someone physically smaller than him who was already in a vulnerable position.
Sigh. Look, I know there are greater evils in the world right now, and that taking anything seriously is cringe, and that even on top of that, I'm Mr. Takes Things Too Seriously All the Time. I'm not trying to say this is, like, the great tragedy of our lives. I guess part of it is just that I've had too much experience, both of my own and through people I love and care about, with people who hit, especially men. And I'm just really tired of the, "Well, he was angry" defense. That's all.
I'll stop, now, for real this time, and go back to my elitist tower for people who have no sense of humor, or whatever.
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Read earlier that someone confirmed that Rock did not write the offensive joke but the writing staff did instead. That's going to look real bad on them now.
Read earlier that someone confirmed that Rock did not write the offensive joke but the writing staff did instead. That's going to look real bad on them now.
Outside of the low hanging fruit of "Jada has a shaved head", it was a really dumb, unfunny joke. G.I. Jane hasn't been relative since its release in 1997. Most people under 30 probably aren't even aware of its existence. Almost every write-up about the incident is having to explain what the movie is.
Which just leads me to wonder how such a lame-ass joke could set off either of the Smiths. I thought their whole shtick was that they've like transcended ego or whatever.
Read earlier that someone confirmed that Rock did not write the offensive joke but the writing staff did instead. That's going to look real bad on them now.
Outside of the low hanging fruit of "Jada has a shaved head", it was a really dumb, unfunny joke. G.I. Jane hasn't been relative since its release in 1997. Most people under 30 probably aren't even aware of its existence. Almost every write-up about the incident is having to explain what the movie is.
Which just leads me to wonder how such a lame-ass joke could set off either of the Smiths. I thought their whole shtick was that they've like transcended ego or whatever.
It's a 90's Jay Leno joke. Shit you'd overhear on MTV Awards. The only people that would clearly remember G.I. Jane are the Smiths which probably didn't help matters. And it appears to have been a late add.
Rock’s rehearsal on Saturday in front of Academy officials and his friend, Oscars telecast producer Will Packer, had gone smoothly. And on Sunday night, with just six Oscars still to be handed out, the end was in sight. Then, of course, came Rock’s joke about Jada Pinkett Smith — which was not part of Rock’s routine at his rehearsal — which enraged Will Smith, followed by the slap seen and heard around the world.
I do think picking on someone who's uncharacteristically bald is a dice roll between shaved head or disease, and to touch on what Zig was saying about the severity, and what postjack said about Rock not knowing, part of that diceroll is she could've had cancer and that is not dice worth rolling imo
The producers couldve just given him the award and not let him give a speech. That wouldve been plenty of punishment at that point for what had happened. Thanking people during the post award presser wouldve had much less effect and reach than the tv feed.
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